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2089
KURODA JUTARO (1887-1970)
Card player/Portrait of a woman
20th century
Oil on board depicting a man playing a card game, the reverse with
a study for a portrait of a woman, signed on the obverse Kuroda,
framed
22 1/8 x 13 7/8in (56.2 x 35.2cm)
US$6,000 - 8,000

PROPERTY FROM THE HAUGE COLLECTION
2090 W
A SET OF THE KOKKA, A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL
ART
Meiji (1868-1912), Taisho (1912-1926), and Showa (1926-1989)
eras, circa 1889-1962
Near-complete set of Kokka, an illustrated monthly journal of the fine
and applied arts of Japan and other Eastern countries, published by
The Kokka Publishing Company, Tokyo, Japan, 48 bound volumes
2089 2089 (47 sets of 12 issues and one set of 8 issues) and 195 loose issues;
together they represent nos. 1 - 849 of Kokka (from October 1889 to
December 1962), with the following issues missing; 326, 337, 385,
386, 389, 404, 406, 494 to 497, 499, 501 to 504, 506 to 509, 511
to 524, 526 to 542, 546, 548 to 553, 555 to 557, 561, 563, 566,
569, 713, 724, 812, 813, 828; also the following 67 English-language
loose issues; 133 to 181, 184, 196, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301,
314, 328 to 337; and indexes
15 1/16 x 10 1/2in (38.5 x 26.7cm) each approximately
US$10,000 - 15,000

2091
No lot

PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
2092
A GROUP OF WOODCUT PRINT RELATED BOOKS
Showa (1926-1989) era
Comprising 24 books related to various Japanese woodcut
print artists and six exhibition catalogues: titles include a set
2090 (partial) of three volumes of Kindai Nihon hanga taikei (Compendium of
Modern Japanese Prints), circa 1975-1976, published by Mainichi
Shimbunsha; Hokusai: One Hundred Poets, by Peter Morse,
circa 1989, published by George Braziller, Inc. New York; The Art
of Hiroshige, by Tsuneo Tamba, circa 1965, published by Asahi
Shinbun-sha; Kuniyoshi, the Warrior-Prints, by B. W. Robinson,
circa 1982, published by Phidon Press Limited, Oxford and Cornell
University Press; Yoshitoshi, the Splendid Decadent, the Last
Master of Ukiyo-e, by Shinichi Segi, circa 1985, published by
Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo; Kawase Hasui mokuhanga-shu
(Kawase Hasui Prints Collection), circa 1979, published by Mainichi
Shinbunsha; Shiko Munakata Wood-Block Prints, Chronologically
arranged (1935-1958), by Dr. Soetsu Yanagi, circa 1958, published
by the Chikuma-shobo, Tokyo; and various exhibition catalogs
include, The Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi: The Herbert R. Cole
Collection, circa 1980, published by the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Hiroshige, An Exhibition of Selected
Prints and Illustrated Books, circa 1983, published by Ukiyo-e
Society of America, Inc.; Kunisada’s World circa 1993, published
by Japan Society, Inc. and Ukiyo-e Society of America; The Mann
Collection circa 1994, published by Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum
of Art, Tokyo; The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro circa 1995,
published by Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo and British Museum Press,
London; Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master – Pioneer of Modern
2092 (partial) Design circa 2003, published by The National Museum of Modern
Art, Kyoto, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and the Asahi
Shimbun; and 48 other reference books related to Japanese prints
US$1,000 - 2,000

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